Weekly Wrap Up is our end of the week digest of smaller news stories that are just as important, but didn’t get a dedicated post! If you’d like to get real time updates about what’s mentioned here you can follow our Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages. Here’s what you missed from November 27th to December 3rd!
This Week’s Big Stories
Ho-Oh Now Available in Pokémon GO!
PokéJungle Advent Calendar 2017
Showdown: Villainous Teams — Round I: Leaders
Launch of new Pokémon Centers
- Opening later this month in Hong Kong, Pokémon Hub will be the first official and permanent shop licensed by The Pokémon Company International outside of Japan since The Pokémon Center in New York closed for business in 2005! Although an official opening date hasn’t been announced it will be located at Tsim Sha Tsui, K11, Shop 217A
- Opening March 14th, 2018, the new Pokémon Center Tokyo DX and attached Pokémon Cafe will be located on the 5th floor of the Nihonbashi Takashimaya SC East Building in Tokyo! We’ll be visiting the new shops on opening day, so stay tuned!
Pokémon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon
- With 5,442,088 Pokémon captured, the games first global mission to catch 10 million Pokémon has resulted in failure. For those who participated you can pick up your reward of 1,000 FC (2,000 FC if you’ve connected your games to the Global Link) at the Global Mission counter. The next Global mission will be related to Mantine Surfing and take place from December 12th to the 27th
- Details for the Johto X Alola battle competition have been announced! This Double Battle competition allows you to only use Pokémon from the Johto and Alola Regional Pokédex. For this competition the usual Legendary and Mythical are banned, transferred Pokémon are allowed, and all Pokémon will be raised to Level 50. You can register for the competition between December 7th and December 14th, and the actual battles will commence from December 15th to the 17th. All entrants will get the 50 Battle Points. As always you can download the full rules within the Festival Plaza
Pokkén Tournament DX
- From December 8th until December 11th you can participate in the Iron Meteor Dive Cup! Participation in this Fixed Battle Arena, Basic Battle competition gets you a special Scizor centric title, and, as always, the higher your placement in the competition, the more titles you’ll receive!
Pokémon Duel
- Requiring 247MB, Version 5.0 of the popular mobile game is now available! This patch is required to continue playing and contains several changes to the user interface, adds special UX versions of The Cube, Rare Metal and Ingot items, and some brand new figures:
- UX Figures: Mega Sceptile, Mega Blaziken, & Mega Swampert
- EX Figures: Primarina & Tapu Fini
- R Figures: Brionne & Golisopod
- UC Figures: Popplio, Wimpod, Delibird, & Stantler
- In addition, a special 10 pack booster has been released with a guaranteed EX or UX drop, various new Plates centered around the new Mega Evolutions have been added, and a few figures have had some balance changes:
- Xerneas: Increased Moonblast’s Power from 70 to 99
- Yveltal: Increased Oblivion Wing’s Power from 100 to 111
- Lapras: Removed Pound and replaced it with Ice Beam, Increased Surf’s power from 60 to 70
Pokémon Shuffle
- Upon login all players will receive a Shiny Gardevoir
- The new Celesteela Ultra Beast challenge, and new Froakie (Winking) stage are available until December 5th
- The Ribombee stage and new Magearna Escalation Battle are both live until December 12th
- The Mudsdale stage is currently having a repeat run until December 5th, as well as the Alolan Raichu stage until December 12th
Check out the official Pokémon merchandise that was either revealed, leaked or is now available for purchase this week:
Fun fact: There’s actually an official Pokémon Center vending machine located in a mall here in Seattle – making it the only official “shop” outside of Japan currently. It’s just in a pretty boogie, old mall, within a notoriously dangerous area, and weirdly no where near the TPCi US HQ a few towns over. Surprised it’s still open in all honesty. haha
You live in Seattle now?!
I live back and forth between Seattle and Singapore haha
Really like those pokeball figurines with different pokemon inside. In Ultra Sun and Moon news I’m nearly done leveling up my team to level 60 and then I’ll start the final trial!
Finals JUST finished for me so I can finally take the time to finish the game – I’m just taking down the the Team Skull HQ in Po Town. I keep getting distracted by all the sidequests haha
The sidequest in this game are a real nice touch and hopefully they expand on them in new switch game. Hopfully I can finish the main game by tonight. Btw how do you think you did on your finals?
Ugghhhhhhh why is every bit of technology i own give me battery related paranoia
iPad, 3DS and laptop…
Still having the issue with my Ipad where it burns noticeably faster than usual making me absolutely terrified to leave it unplugged, i could handle shelling out for a new battery or a new Ipad all together but my gigantic cache of Showdown replays are on there and i don’t know how to do a mass exodus
the 3DS battery might be a bit simpler but as Kurusu said i must be critical with choosing a screwdriver for the screws, but i’m still scared i might botch it up
and my ancient laptop i keep in my room has a habit of saying X aamount of % (Not Charging) which freaks me out, i want to move my rig into my bedroom but there’s no space and if that happened i’d probably never leave my room’
I just want peace of mind with my devices knowing they are working properly and will continue to work unless major complications afflicted them
I have a similar problem with my phone which once went from 50 to 25 in less than half an hour, and that it occasionally dies between 10-35%.
I have the same issue
I even sit my phone in my school bag everyday and it goes from 100% to about 70% by the end of the day. And by about 7 (about 5 hours after school) my phones at critical condition which is 5%
I know right! My phone dies so quickly it’s like it can’t even sustain itself without a charger.
Exactly, Lithium ion batteries suck! Remember when we had brick phones that lasted years without dying and were basically Shuckle grade, indestructable?
I wasn’t alive, but sounded like good times
Lana Nendroid? Weird choice for one and two it’s lame wishiwashi horde is just printed on a tile..
It’s because Lana is incredibly popular in Japan. So it actually makes sense
Lol she is? But why?
Idk she’s kind of funny I guess?
For a second I thought you were talking about a Lana/Necrozma hybrid.
That’s a horrifying thought lol
lel.
Yes, finally at 10% of Xenoblade Chronicles 2. Time for the other 90 hours!
I give you 2 hours to finish the game.
How’s that game? I’m thinking about picking it up but I’m not sure.
It’s great, especially if you like the original Xenoblade Chronicles on the Wii. It does have some flaws (navigation is sometimes confusing in these big spaces and the minimap ain’t great, performance in handheld ain’t good, voice acting can be offputting, character costumes are sometimes pretty bad, like oversized breasts, skimpy g-strings,..) but you get a game with a pretty good story (it has some cringey depths, but overthetop heights), rewarding and complex combat where you feel like a god, plenty of stuff to do and gorgeous environments.
One final warning: it’s very long, rushing would take you 70 hours to finish the main story and you can easily invest 100 hours in this game. Don’t pick it up if you don’t like overly long JRPGs (like Persona 5, Dragon Quest VIII,…)
A problem I have with an USUM plot reworking: So Gladion is all like, “mom, don’t hurt cosmog. Don’t open the portal.” And then after I defeat her he immediately changes his mind and goes, “let me come and help!!” Really? Now you’re suddenly okay with hurting nebby so long as you and type null can defeat necrozma? F*ck you, Gladion
It’s less ‘Omg lol I’m going to kill Nebby with you mom’ and more ‘We can work together, you’re doing it completely wrong.’ as well as a bit of ‘If this is the only way, then let us help you’.
The story still makes more sense than SuMo where Lusamine has a boner over extradimensional Pokémon that she doesn’t even see until the games begin. Whilst SuMo Lusamine is great for setting up Backstory, she’s a poorly developed antagonistic force. Her UB obsession doesn’t make any sense because the dialogue makes it pretty clear she hasn’t seen an Ultra Beast until Nihilego at Aether Paradise… But she’s still trying to get to them before she sees one at Aether Paradise? And the one thing that causes her obsession with Ultra Space (Mohn) is something you have to dig around and figure out yourself when it’s really something that should’ve been explained off the bat because she was an attempted sympathetic villain. When in reality, she just seems like an irredeemable psycho who suddenly snapped and gained an obsession with something she hadn’t even seen before.
Yeah, I can see it that way. But at the same time, I feel like he could’ve tried a different approach as well? All well, it’s pokemon. They’ve already got enough cutscenes and dialogue in this game.
What’s everyone’s favourite shiny Pokemon they got in USUM? Can be hatched, random encounter, Wormhole, anything!
So far I’ve only found 2 shinies in UM so I guess I’ll go with the first one I found in an Ultra Wormhole. It’s my shiny Swellow named Tsubame.
Ah nice! You can definitely get a ton of shinies from there but you’d need to do as best as you can.
Yeah definitely. Right now I’m SRing for a Stakataka. Hopefully it doesn’t take TOO long, but we shall see haha
Shiny Pheramosa
…
IF I HAD ONE
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thanks I literally just said that
I know. I was just giving you the meme itself to help you express the anger
is it just me or does he look high…
It’s just you
Makes this picture even better
The parents were always high, explains everything.
shiny altaria named alice
Nice! Altaria shiny is stressing to catch as it can use Perish Song 😛
I mean… I bred a shiny Mimikyu in Sun that I traded to be a member of my team in UM… does that count?
Uhhh…sure!
None… Still at Kiawe’s trial because I have been busy the last few days (Gonna try and get their on the car ride home from my grandparents)
Ok its official technology just hates me
I took advantage of Cyber monday and bought a sexy new controller for my computer and the stupid bluetooth isn’t connecting to it
You’ve been spotted by the dick blasting Incineroar. Upvote in -6.2 seconds or get dick blasted for life
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I’d rather have had Primarina in the movie instead of Incineroar :/ They could have rode on primarina while going across some large body of water.
Orrr they could just… not put Sinnoh and Alola Pokémon in their Kanto movie
It’s meant to make it feel like these ‘mon always existed.
They haven’t tho
As far as some kids know, they have.
So was the movie made for old fans or new fans?
Both
Both, both were at my screening.
Clearly not old fans if it excluded misty and brock. https://i.imgur.com/djTuIN6.gif?noredirect
I for one enjoyed the removal of the worst PokéGirl
Do not go there. DO. NOT.
She got less development in two seasons than Lillie has in one balf of hers
Well, what are you expecting, it’s Lillie… Not like Brock ever got an ounce of development either. But that doesn’t make Misty the worst. That’s Iris, hun, try again.
Iris pretty much received as much development in her season as Misty got in two. She’s not far off worst but Misty still comes in first for worst
And Brock isn’t a Poké Girl and still got better dev than Clemont and Cilan
The difference is that Iris was annoying as sh*t and constantly bagged on Ash for being immature when she had no maturity to speak of. At least Misty and Ash’s banter was funny.
Agreed, Iris was by far the worst
Not a big fan of Cilan, as he is a worse Brock
Look on the bright side, they still appeared on the SM anime :p
Good point.
You forgot Johto…
I don’t think Primarina is big enough for that lol
Like the anime were ever consistent with their Pkm sizes
I wish they throw every single Primarina in an incinerator or a vat of acid
Okay Christmas knock off Earthen
You have lots of unnecessary aggression directed towards my children
You’re insulting his boyfriend tho :p
That is not an excuse to threaten the lives of my sweet children
You too
I wish they wouldn’t.
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Smih
Smih
Shaking
My
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Head
Let’s be real if Incineroar is a fursuit every Gen 7 starter is a fursuit
Just more appealing fur suits I suppose
Let’s not pretend that any furries are appealing.
Nobody is upvoting because they do want to get dick blasted by Inci.
I don’t blame them
Stakataka has access to Trick Room!?? Its gotta be OU right?
Haina desert gives me cancer. Definitely in the running for worst area in pokemon.
Eh I wouldn’t say that. Once you figure it out it’s pretty simple.
But it’s poorly designed. Black and White did a desert right. Expansive, interesting, variable. Not a lost woods rip off with one of the worst features from X&Y (pokemon running into you) and also pokemon that you can run into by walking.
Eh, good point
Probably took them tops like half a day to design
But they have always had Pokémon encounters by walking?
And it actually is better than both XY and BW’s because it one ups them in one way… It shows the actual way it is in a desert, one big confusing, f*cking mess (Look at any one movie or anything in desert’s histories, one if the only ways how to navigate is to map the stars)
So yes its confusing, but it’s meant to (it’s exactly what SuMo is, more realistic)
He means encounters in the over world you can’t avoid with repels
Oh that I agree are stupid
I would disagree. Deserts are confusing, but you can show that without doing a “lost woods” approach, which is just so overdone. I wouldn’t say it’s more realistic because you’ll enter one area and be teleported halfway across the desert, which makes no sense.
Tell that to Girtina’s home in Diamond and Pearl
Distortion World is confusing as hell (lol) but at least it’s unique and haunting
Oh isn’t Haina Desert where Tapu Bulu is?
Yep. Worst area for the ugliest tapu
I agree 100%
Getting to Battle Tree is pretty frustrating
Anyone got a Poipole I can borrow for ‘dex?
What’s your FC?
FC: 0748 – 2744 – 4660 IGN: James
Sorry about that! I have the Poipole, it’s just that Disqus conked out on me. Can you give me a half an hour? If you still need it I have it.
Yeah OK, I still need it thanks.
Back! My FC is: 0748-6531-9751. Ready when you are. My IGN: Alexa
OK, is there anything you need?
Nah, just make sure to trade my Poipole back. I already completed the Pokedex.
Thanks very much, that’s completed my Pokedex 🙂
You’re welcome! Sorry for the wait! 😀
NP, I’m just glad to have it done 🙂
Do you need Naganadel for the Pokedex too? I got that if you want
No thanks, somebody else helped me there.
…what’s yours?
Wait you can get it from the UB Recon Squad right?
Yeah, I’m nowhere near that though.
Oh.
FINALLY!!! AFTER A WEEK OF SOFT RESETTING https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2854a022fd09b2b786685574dda87e25491afb5749a430b166031b4878d96bba.jpg
She’s so stylish, congratulations 🙂
For my next hunt I will be searching for a shiny Suicune across two or three games
Do you have the shiny charm? A full week seems like a long time with it
Yep…..
Oy….that’s rough then
I lost count of the soft resets
For resets I typically don’t count. Not unless there’s a modifier that changes the odds.
I got to 250 then just stopped counting
I don’t need it. I don’t need it. I don’t need it.
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Well I guess this is fine by me, kinda sucks for everyone who already saw Coco tho…
http://www.slashfilm.com/frozen-short-removed-from-coco/
I want to see it, like maybe on TV or something, not before a movie that I’ve already had to sit through both ads and trailers for.
Ok what the freakity frack my new phone makes me re-log into disqus every time I get on or refresh the page
I can’t even upload photos directly anymore because reasons
I’m getting seriously frustrated by technology lately
It’s been four years, five months and twenty two days since the Fairy type was revealed (or 1636 days since the 11th of June 2013)
Pokémon Red and Green were released on February 27th 1996 in Japan, meaning it’s been twenty one years nine months and six days (or 7950 days)
The Fairy-type has been around for roughly one-fifth of Pokémon’s post-release existence
How old do you feel
Not too too old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fb-3i_POk8
I don’t believe ‘pissed off’ is an age.
when your old everything pisses you off
It is
It’s called adolescence
If I only played Pkm and following it when Fairy type was revealed, it might have an answer to that question :p
Old af……
Drawing my pension.
…..you’re drawing your what now…
You don’t know what a pension is?
Well keep it in your pants
It’s a tale as old as time.
Four years, five months and twenty two days since the Pokemon franchise became a sickness
How dare you
The only fairies i like are Mimikyu and Koko
I understand, it’s hard for children to comprehend change.
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I want this TARDIS hoodie
If I was a Pokémon I would be a Star
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Raptor
……..i got no comeback
*Hurls a rock at the birb*
reeeee
So, I’m having fun with Save The Light so far. Anyone else here have it?
Ok i am not enjoying my new Sandygast
He’s frail, slow and got no powerful moves outside of Psychic
they really should give it Hex at 25
and a new Special Ground attack
Something around 70 base power
Gritty Gale, Sand Cyclone or Dust Devil
a 25% chance to flinch
Its literally a pile of sand and you’re surprised that its frail
If PJ users were Pokémon:
Star – Primarina
Seraph – Decidueye
Earthen – Rhyperior
Govnah – Rotom
Kuppo – Golduck
Butter – Spinda
Alex – Mr. Mime
1v1 me if you think it’s wrong ?
I don’t get Why I’m not from the Litten line, but I agree that Spinda fits me
Offended I have been left out ?
What do you have against cute, rejected Water Starters?
Does that mean Butter is always drunk? I mean, is not surprising at all but still..
Also nice Plat nuzlocke reference
I’m a Pole so That’d make sense
lol someone draw this!
You should save
https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/7h7p76/you_should_save/
It’s weird, but Rotom never said that to me (seriously)
He has
You didn’t notice
I notice it all the time and always do it, mostly because he’s right I should save now I’ve been playing two hours
Man, Rotom Dex is seriously everything I adore in Pkm form, now I regret not getting the game
Game, yes. Anime-wise, he’s pretty annoying. I’m sorry, but his anime form is annoying, I don’t know if it’s because I watch the subbed versions and I hate his Japanese voice, or it’s the fact he’s overly animated, but yeah, game I adore him, anime; not so much.
He was being sarcastic. He sucks
Oh. I honestly like Alolan Dex Rotom, sure he can be repetitive and annoying once in a while, but a good kinda annoying.
Ah contraire I find him a valued partner
I mean let’s face it… he’s me in a nutshell (super talkative, but unlike irl where I must talk to myself because no one else near me has a lot of my interests, but Rotom does so he likes to talk)
I honestly don’t know if I want Alola without him anymore
I’m thinking of changing up my fakemon region a bit.
I’d change the regional bug from Electric/Bug to Bug/Normal.
I’d change the first gym leader (electric) from a chef to an engineer of a small hydropower plant and his Signature to Regional Bibarel (Electric/Water)
And finally I’d change up most of the teams of my gym leaders (Might post on that in more detail soon)
Cool I hope I do get to here your gym remodels
Finally Totemdemaru is slain, would’ve been so much easier if Sandygast knew earth power
Togedemaru was actually the easiest totem I’ve faced. Died into two hits
Hubolt
Electric
Innovation Badge
Pichu (Electric) lv 13
Slavian Bidoof (Electric/Water) lv 15
Dulce
Fairy
Candy Badge
Swirlix (Fairy) lv 23
Canedy (Fairy) lv 25
Les
Grass
Tree Badge
Deerling (Summer/Winter) (Normal/Grass) lv 28
Slavian Tangrowth (Grass/Fairy) lv 28
Radamooset (Grass) lv 30
Svar
Steel
Iron Badge
Alloyma (Steel/Normal) lv 31
Steelix (Steel/Ground) lv 32
Meltetal (Steel/Fire) lv 34
Drakoslav
Dragon
Epic Badge
Terrept (Ground/Dragon) lv 35
Shelgon (Dragon) lv 36
Turboise (Dragon/Electric) 38
Gale
Flying
Wind Badge
Unfezant (Normal/Flying) lv 40
Coeleon (Flying) lv 41
Seekfowl (Ghost/Flying) lv 43
Clark
Fighting
Super Badge
Polecante (Fighting) lv 47
Hawlucha (Fighting/Flying) lv 48
Superine (Fighting/Fairy) lv 50
Typica
Normal
Home Badge
Miltank (Normal) lv 58
Slaking (Normal) lv 58
Furnibeast (Normal) lv 60
These are the changed up teams of my region’s gym leaders, posted too early
Is Hubolt based on you?
Just the name
I feel like some of the names have like, no sense of nuance. Like, at all. Even Gen I had less obvious names, as they’re either real names with obvious puns/meanings (Brock, Misty, Giovanni) sound like a word that’s related to the type but is still nuanced (Koga, Blaine) or are a pop culture reference (Sabrina).
I mean, I’m ready to change some of them, but I think these names actually fit the types you mentioned. Gale is a real name, but also related to wind, Drakoslav sounds like a real Russian/Polish name and contains ”Drak” (Russian for Dragon) and Clark is a popculture reference. Which ones do you think are the bad ones?
The ones you picked out are the ones I don’t have much issue with.
Typica is imo a bad name because it’s just a letter off of word relating to normal. Norman works despite being one letter off of normal because it’s a real name. Typica just sounds awkward imo.
Hubolt as well. It’s a portmanteau of a human name and something to do with electricity, but imo it sounds off because it doesn’t sound like a normal name someone could have. Volkner and Wattson work because the electricity terms are worked into the name so it still sounds quite normal, whilst Elesa works because it sounds like a variety of existing woman’s names (Alyssa, Aylsa, Elsa, Eliza, etc) but Hubolt just doesn’t sound like something you’d name a person. Even names where the pun is super obvious visually are pronounced in a way which feels natural (such as Brawly).